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NPEERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

HENRY TIMKEN, OFgST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VEHICLE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,406, dated March 29, 1881.` Application tiled December 16, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY TIMKEN, of the city of St. Louis, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buggy-Springs, of which the following is a full and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings and letters marked l thereon.

which are quarter-elliptic and turned up at the Vthe side bars, and the gearing'.

small ends, and which are fastened to the bodyT at opposite sides from each other, and from which each is respectively fastened to the side bars.

Figure l is a top view of the exible metal bearing-spring, the quarter-ellipticsprings, Fig. 2 is an end View ot' the bearing-springs, the quarterelliptic springs, and a transverse section of the body and side bars at the place where the springs are attached to them, respectively.

Letter A, in Fig. 1, is a iexible metal, bearing-spring, attached at one end to the large end of the spring B, and both attached perinanently to the under part ofthe body at one side, and the other end is attached permanent] y to the opposite side of the body underneath, and serves to receive the pressure of the spring B, yielding asit presses against it in proportion to its elasticity, thus giving more elasticity to the spring B than it' it had a rigid and inhexible bearing-plate. The ends of this bearing-spring rest on the bearings or sills of the body, so that the bearing-spring between its ends may be`free to move up and down. Of course there may be one of those bearingsprings for each quarterelliptic spring, or there may be but one for each set of quarterelliptic springs.,

B B are quarter-elliptic springs turned up at the small ends, and with their large ends attached to the bearing spring or springs A A, at the under side and at one end, then running, With the bearing-springs A A, to the 0pposite sides ot' the body, crossing'each other, and having their small ends attached by ordinary toggles to the side bars, C C.

O O are ordinary side bars of buggies, with their front ends resting on the bolster, and their rear ends resting on the hind axle.

Letter F, in Fig. 2, shows a sectional view of the body, and b b show the ends of the sills or bearings to which the ends of the bearingsprings A A are attached.

d d d d are screws or bolts to hold the bearing-springs A A and quarterelliptic springs B B together, and by means of which they are fastened to the body F. Of course they lnay be fastened together and to the body in any other permanent manner.

E E are toggles connecting the small ends of the springs to the side bars.

The attachment ofthe springs B B to opposite sides of the under portion of the body and crossing each other, and being attached to the side bars, U C, at opposite sides `from which they are respectively attached to the body, is old, and I lay no claim to it in this specification, neither do I lay any claim to the manner in which'the springs are attached to the side bars; but

What I do claim as new, and for which I ask Letters Patent to be granted me, is-

The springs B B, attached to the under side of the body of a buggy at the opposite sides to each other, and crossing each other, and attached to theside bars, O G, at opposite sides from which they are respectively attached to the body, in combination with the metallic bearing-springs A A, substantially as above described, and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY TIMKEN.

Witnesses: v

WM. M. ECOLES, M. S. EccLEs. 

